Words to wed by You don’t have to look past Montana’s own writers for a good ceremony reading
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The Beatles said, “All you need is love” and Bruce Lee said, “Love is like a friendship caught on fire.” Eva Gabor said, “Love is a game that two can play and both can win” and Plato said, “Love is a serious mental disease.” Whichever of these philosophies you subscribe to, we might all agree that trying to talk about love—and, therefore, finding just the right quote or reading for a wedding—isn’t easy. The Bible, Pablo Neruda and Shakespeare are classic sources for reading material on matrimony and true love. But if you’re looking for something different, you have to dig a little deeper. Billy Collins, the former poet laureate, wrote a great poem called “Litany,” which both makes fun of and embraces the game of love metaphors, providing
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some comedy and ending sweetly. There’s also a great reading from Douglas Adams’ So Long and Thanks for All the Fish when Arthur falls for Fenchurch. One thing about Montana is that we’ve got a lot of good writers here— poets who see love in the landscape and gritty novelists who are secretly romantics. You can find funny stuff with lovely lines, and if you want, fishing metaphors. Suicidal fish David James Duncan’s The River Why has become a classic next to Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It. It’s a story about fishing, rivers and the environment, but ultimately about relationships among people. Toward the end he gets to the crux of what love is and what it does to you, and he does it in a very